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Kenworth K104. A Heavy Duty Cab Over
With its familiar red and white KW badge, Kenworth has always been a name synonymous with heavy duty trucking in Australia.
article tags: trucks, truck, used truck, one owner, trucking, buy
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GMC's Collectible Motorhome
In the 70's GMC built a motorhome that today is still considered one of the most technically advanced RV's available
article tags: collectibe motor home, gmc motor home
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What Are The Pros And Cons Of Diesel And Gas Engines
Diesel is often thought of as smelly and noisy. Many think that the only place for diesel is in a tractor or a semi. There are many other vehicles that are diesel powered however. A person must determine what their needs are.
article tags: truck, trucks, truck parts, gas, diesel
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The Toyota FJ Cruiser: Breaking the Styling Mold
Toyota’s growing popularity hasn’t been without controversy. No, the automaker doesn’t have much of a quality issue to contend with and, no Toyota isn’t likely to begin losing market share anytime soon. Yet, there is one area where the Japanese automaker has a bit of a perception problem and that has to do with styling. Of course Toyota vehicles aren’t ugly but there are few models being built today that are truly exciting.
article tags: toyota fj cruiser, toyota land cruiser, toyota trucks, toyota suv, toyota camry, lexus, scion, autos
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Grille Guards And Bull Bars Are Ready For Battle Or The Burbs
A good grille guard can be quite the versatile tool for your truck or SUV. In fact, grille guards better your driving experience with the following features:
- Tough looks that add a serious dose of attitude or style to your front end
- Protection of delicate, expensive parts with rugged steel bars that deflect potential hazards
- A number of shapes.
article tags: grille guards, brush guards, gril, grill, guard, car, truck, suv, nasta
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A Look at the Biggest Moving Truck Company in America
U-haul is a moving truck rental company that provides you with various different sizes of trucks and equipment to aid in your moving needs. U-haul can provide you with various rental moving equipment to suit your needs.
article tags: truck rental, moving trucks, moving truck rentals
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5 Tips About Bed Caps And Bed Rails For Your Truck
Let something besides your paint bear the brunt instead, and dress up your vehicle while you're at it! Top your truck bed (and tailgate, too) with a sturdy set of bed caps, bed rails or both, and you'll discover the following 5 tips:
Sweet looks that range from burly to smooth and stylin'
Premium protection for your sensitive truck bed paint
Simple.
article tags: bed rails, truck bed, putco, bak, pickup, go industries, dee zee, bed caps, cap, putco bed caps, putco bed rails
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Nerf Bars And Truck Side Steps - One Leg Up On the Others With 5 Main Features
Side tubes, nerf bars, step bars, running boards. Whatever you call 'em, they look great and work even better. The need for side steps has grown as trucks and SUVs have gotten taller. You'll discover a number of features and benefits with a set of side steps, including:
- A stable extra boost up into your cab
- Safe stepping in any weather
- A variety.
article tags: nerf bars, side tubes, side steps, truck, suv, waag, westin, tal hadas, nasta
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Mud Flaps and Mud Guards Prevent A Potential Accident
Rocks, sticks and debris meet their doom when they hit a mud guard. There's plenty of other benefits to slapping-on a set of mud guards, including:
- Cleaner fenders that'll save you a car wash or two
- Dent and ding protection that preserves your paint
- Sweet looks that go from mud-running master to smooth-style cruising
- Durable, long-lasting.
article tags: mud flaps mud guards splash guards by husky, go industries, and dee zee
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Jeep, The All-purpose Vehicle For Rough Terrian
Jeep is an all-purpose vehicle that is capable of traversing rough terrain. The first jeep prototype was designed by the Department of Army for purposes of carrying personnel and supplies.
article tags: jeep, jeeps, 4x4
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18 Wheeler Accidents
The following article overviews 18 wheeler accident statistics and common causes.
article tags: 18 wheeler accidents, truck accidents, automobile accidents, wrecks, semi, tractor-trailor
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How Safe Are Your Truck Batteries
Truck batteries are a type of lead-acid battery which powers not just trucks but the majority of automotive equipment such as cars, wheelchairs, tractors, and motorcycles. These type of batteries are shaped similar to a rectangle and have sulfuric acid in them which if exposed to the skin burns it on contact.
article tags: safety, cars, trucks, speeding, gas, sat nav
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Rental Trucks - Help You Move!
If you are planning to shift to a new place, be it across the state or to a new country, you obviously would want to take all the pieces of furniture and stuff you had collected, which you hold special to you, instead of selling them off and buying new ones. Well then what better way to do that than to rent a truck! You can decide on the size of the truck depending on how much stuff you have.
article tags: truck rental, truck rentals, moving truck rental, cargo van rental, rental truck, moving truck, truck rental company
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Review of Ford Trucks
The best-selling car in America returns with an original engine design and a blue-collar transmission from the motor city. Ford's F-150 pickup comes in regular, extended, and crew-cab styles. All cabs have four doors. The standard minicab mimics the SuperCab extended minicab with average rear-hinged "partly doors." The SuperCrew crew minicab has four straight doors.
article tags: ford, ford cars, ford trucks
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Used Truck Buying Guide
Here are some of the most important questions I think a potential buyer should ask his sales person before they buy their truck. By asking these questions to me, or someone else you will save yourself time and possibly a lot of money. I would welcome these questions , and I will answer them accurately and sincerely.
1. Does the truck have any type of warranty?
2.
article tags: used trucks, pickup trucks, semi trucks, truck buying
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Tricking Out Your Dodge Ram SRT-10
There are pick up trucks on the road and then there is the Dodge Ram SRT-10. Take one already powerful truck and add in a Viper engine and you come away with a vehicle that is truly the king of its class. DaimlerChrysler got it right when they decided to morph its popular Ram into a true road warrior able to haul people, stuff, and beat just about any car on the road.
article tags: dodge ram, srt-10, dodge, plymouth, chrysler, jeep, srt, mopar, 300c, dodge magnum, dodge caliber
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Truck and SUV Exhaust Systems
Let’s assume that you have decided to purchase a performance exhaust system. Let’s also assume that you already know the benefits of putting a high-performance exhaust system on your truck or SUV: better gas mileage, more horsepower and torque, and a louder, high-performance sound. These high-performance exhaust systems give you all of those benefits by providing less restriction and making it easier for your motor to send it’s exhaust gases through the exhaust system.
article tags: cat-back exhaust, high-performance exhaust, high-flow exhaust system, performance exhaust, free-flowing exhaust, aftermarket exhaust, custom exhaust
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The Highly Refined and Capable BMW X5 SAV
Sport utility vehicle sales continue to plummet in the face of surging gasoline prices now topping the three dollar per gallon mark. Indeed, this segment of the vehicle market has produced some of the largest profits for automakers globally and this loss of sales is impacting manufacturer bottom lines the world over. Yet, demand hasn’t dried up altogether and a rebound is possible once gas prices stabilize.
article tags: bmw x5, mercedes, lexus, infiniti, chrysler, cadillac, race cars, sports cars, new cars, future cars
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Dodge SRT8 Charger: Not Just Another Family Sedan
When the smart folks at DaimlerChrysler were looking to beef up the Dodge line, they had to look no further than the Chrysler 300C, the Mercedes derived sedan that was turning heads from the moment it was introduced. What surprised many Mopar fans was that the vaunted Charger name would be affixed not to a coupe, but to a sedan. To this day, purists grumble at that decision but one look at the Charger tells you that this is not some ordinary family sedan.
article tags: dodge srt8, charger srt8, mopar, chrysler, plymouth, jeep, dodge magnum, dodge neon, dodge viper, gm
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Bushings Buying Tips
Bushings are either permanent or detachable metal sleeves that are used primarily to reduce friction. Since the early 90s, different chemistries of the dry bulb bushings with bronze layers have been commonly used...
article tags: dry bulb bushing, altimeter, fittings, suspension, handling
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Tonneau Covers are a Great Truck Accessory
A Tonneau cover is a truck accessory that is made of a heavy duty vinyl that covers the entire bed of your truck whether it is a small size truck or a full size truck...
article tags: truck accessory, tonneau cover, truck accessory store, shopping, price, shipping
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Tonneau Covers - Protection for Your Truck
The cover used for the bed of your truck is called a tonneau cover. Its main purpose is to give protection to the stuff kept in the bed of your pick-up truck. There are different types of tonneau covers available, and depending on the quality of the material used, the prices vary from around $100 to $2000.
The Different Types of Tonneau Covers:
Aluminum Tonneau Covers
Aluminum tonneau covers are the most popular ones.
article tags: tonneau covers, tonneau cover, truck bed cover, truck tonneau cover, tonneau truck covers, hard tonneau covers, folding tonneau covers
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Different Tonneau Covers for Different Trucks
When you have a truck that you want a tonneau cover for, you may have to do a little research before you buy one
article tags: tonneau cover, truck, vehicle, truck-accessories, car
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Truck Driver Safety - Behavior Plays a Vital Role
Hiring the wrong truck drivers can be disastrous. Hiring the right ones can save lives.
Naturally, safety training plays an important role in driver safety. Other factors may be even more significant according to a 1993 study conducted by Behavioral-Values Research Associates.
The research was conducted on maintenance workers between the ages of 22 and 64, who had been with (XYZ) Company for an average of 17.
article tags: truck driver hiring, hiring safe truck drivers, truck driver safety, reduce truck accidents
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Land Rover's Resilient, But Absent Defender
Tracing its routes back to postwar Britain, Land Rover has been one of the most recognized names on the Australian outback, the African savannah, and in many other far flung places around the world. Since 1948, Land Rover has rivaled Jeep and Toyota in providing the most versatile 4x4 vehicles on the planet. Today, the Defender model continues to trudge on with important updates scheduled for the 2007 model year.
article tags: land rover, range rover, jeep, toyota, jeep grand cherokee, land rover discovery, toyota fj cruiser